OTC Markets Group and PR Newswire Announce Enhanced News
Distribution for SEC Reporting Companies, Expanded International
Distribution
NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- OTC Markets
Group (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of Open, Transparent and Connected
financial marketplaces, and PR Newswire, the global leader of
innovative marketing, communications and investor relations
solutions, today announced enhanced news distribution and U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance options for
OTCQX®, OTCQB® and OTC Pink® companies that report to the SEC and
those that seek to distribute press releases internationally.
Companies that use OTCIQ.com, OTC Markets Group's investor
relations and market intelligence portal, to disseminate company
news and information may now also use the portal to file press
releases with the SEC as a Form 8-K/6-K through PR Newswire's
secure EDGAR filings service, Vintage Filings, providing a
convenient way to comply with SEC disclosure requirements.
Companies have been using OTCIQ.com to distribute press releases
through PR Newswire at preferred rates through a partnership
announced in November 2012.
In addition, OTC Markets Group now offers streamlined
international news distribution for OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink
companies that wish to distribute press releases
internationally. Companies may use OTCIQ.com to distribute
English-language press releases through PR Newswire's expansive
international news distribution network in the U.K., Singapore and Canada, all at exclusive discounted
rates.
"The enhancement of our partnership with PR Newswire makes it
easy and economical for the 2,700 SEC reporting companies and more
than 3,400 international companies trading on our OTCQX, OTCQB and
OTC Pink marketplaces to meet their disclosure requirements and
maximize the distribution of their news and disclosure outside the
U.S.," said Lisabeth Heese, Managing
Director of Issuer and Information Services for OTC Markets
Group. "It is our goal to provide OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink
companies convenient access to the tools necessary to convey their
reputations, news and disclosure to analysts, investors and the
media. We are always looking for ways to increase the
transparency and connectivity of companies trading on our
marketplaces."
"By helping companies simplify the tactical tasks of material
disclosure and SEC compliance, OTC Markets Group has provided
OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink company executives more bandwidth to
focus on the strategic aspects of being a public company," said
Pamela Bartlett, Vice President,
Channels at PR Newswire. "The secure, single log-in
integration for both news distribution and EDGAR filing directly
from the OTCIQ.com portal is a true time-saving benefit for
issuers. PR Newswire's Vintage Filings is one of the top
EDGAR filing newswires and we're very proud that OTC Markets Group
has chosen to expand our partnership."
To learn more about the enhanced news distribution service,
visit
http://www.otcmarkets.com/services/companies/disclosure-news/overview.
About OTC Markets Group Inc.
OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM) operates Open, Transparent and
Connected financial marketplaces for 10,000 U.S. and global
securities. Through our OTC Link® ATS, we directly link a
diverse network of broker-dealers that provide liquidity and
execution services for a wide spectrum of securities. We
organize these securities into marketplaces to better inform
investors of opportunities and risks – OTCQX®, The Best
Marketplace with Qualified Companies; OTCQB®, The Venture
Stage Marketplace with U.S. Reporting Companies; and OTC
Pink®, The Open Marketplace with Variable Reporting
Companies. Our data-driven platform enables investors to
easily trade through the broker of their choice at the best
possible price and empowers a broad range of companies to improve
the quality and availability of information for their
investors. To learn more about how we create better informed
and more efficient financial marketplaces, visit
www.otcmarkets.com.
OTC Link ATS is operated by OTC Link LLC, member FINRA/SIPC and
SEC registered ATS.
About PR Newswire
PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider
of multimedia platforms that enable marketers, corporate
communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor
relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key
audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution
industry 59 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end
solutions to produce, optimize and target content — from rich media
to online video to multimedia — and then distribute content and
measure results across traditional, digital, mobile and social
channels. Combining the world's largest multi-channel,
multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with
comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the
world's enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR
Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the
Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc
company.
About Vintage Filings
PR Newswire's Vintage Filings division is a full-service
financial filing and printing firm and a leading partner for all
your XBRL filing needs. With more than 4,500 public company
clients, Vintage is one of the fastest growing compliance firms
nationwide. Vintage partners with its clients to provide the
knowledge and service necessary to meet the SEC's ever-changing
filing regulations. Vintage Filings provides high-quality,
cost-effective compliance filings and production services,
including EDGAR Filings, typesetting, XBRL tagging, section 16
filings, investment management services, drafting sessions, virtual
data rooms (VDR) and more.
SOURCE OTC Markets Group, Inc.